Reconstruction (1865-1877) refers to the efforts made by the government to not only unify and rebuild relations between the North and the South but to also polish the depressing status of Black Americans. However the lack of political and social effort along with untreated economic wounds, halted Reconstruction, subsequently causing it to be unsuccessful for several reasons. The Freedmen’s Bureau was not only underfunded, but it was discontinued, leaving a massive number of Black Americans illiterate, land reform was not provided which then forced freed Blacks into the ingenious creation of sharecropping, the discriminatory Black Codes, though unconstitutional made racism legal and Reconstruction itself was terminated after only 12 years leaving
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Document (B) U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV (1868) states, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty…” One of the main goals of Reconstruction was to improve the status of freedmen in the eyes of the law as well as the citizens. Congress passed the 14th Amendment in hopes of boosting the social standpoint of the blacks. However southern Whites full of resentment and prejudice were …show more content…
The political issues along with economic struggles, subsequently stopped the act of Reconstruction causing it to halt unfinished projects which resulted in the ultimate failure. Reconstruction tried in vain attempts to aid freed Blacks, but in the end it provided to have too many faults. The Freedmen’s Bureau, but in the end it provided to have too many faults. Although Congress set up the freedmen’s Bureau and passed the 15th and 14th Amendment. White southerners constantly found imaginative ways prohibit Blacks from achieving social and economic equality. Freed blacks were forced to find work based on their race and they were only given degrading tasks and were denied work because of the color. Public and private, and institutions in general segregated by race. In the North there was no political drive to impose social or economic equality in the South and when Blacks American were being terrorized by White supremacy groups government support was withdrawn. The failure of Reconstruction is the issue of how White Americans dealt with freed
Document (B) U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV (1868) states, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty…” One of the main goals of Reconstruction was to improve the status of freedmen in the eyes of the law as well as the citizens. Congress passed the 14th Amendment in hopes of boosting the social standpoint of the blacks. However southern Whites full of resentment and prejudice were …show more content…
The political issues along with economic struggles, subsequently stopped the act of Reconstruction causing it to halt unfinished projects which resulted in the ultimate failure. Reconstruction tried in vain attempts to aid freed Blacks, but in the end it provided to have too many faults. The Freedmen’s Bureau, but in the end it provided to have too many faults. Although Congress set up the freedmen’s Bureau and passed the 15th and 14th Amendment. White southerners constantly found imaginative ways prohibit Blacks from achieving social and economic equality. Freed blacks were forced to find work based on their race and they were only given degrading tasks and were denied work because of the color. Public and private, and institutions in general segregated by race. In the North there was no political drive to impose social or economic equality in the South and when Blacks American were being terrorized by White supremacy groups government support was withdrawn. The failure of Reconstruction is the issue of how White Americans dealt with freed